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- Patent Title: Digital up-converter and N-channel modulator with flexible association of QAM generation resources to narrowcast and broadcast frequencies
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Application No.: US12986772Application Date: 2011-01-07
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Publication No.: US08369433B2Publication Date: 2013-02-05
- Inventor: Joel I. Danzig , Richard S. Prodan , Niki Pantelias , Thomas Kolze , Victor T. Hou , Taruna Tjahjadi
- Applicant: Joel I. Danzig , Richard S. Prodan , Niki Pantelias , Thomas Kolze , Victor T. Hou , Taruna Tjahjadi
- Applicant Address: US CA Irvine
- Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
- Current Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Irvine
- Agency: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
- Main IPC: H04K1/10
- IPC: H04K1/10 ; H04L27/28

Abstract:
Embodiments of a digital up-converter and an N-channel modulator are provided herein. The embodiments of the digital up-converter, in combination with the N-channel modulator, are capable of efficiently filling the spectrum of one or more RF signals with one or more types of information signals. For example, the digital up-converter can fill the spectrum of one or more RF signals with both broadcast and narrowcast video and data signals. In addition, the digital up-converter is capable of flexibly mapping the information signals to one or more channels of the one or more RF signals using a novel, three-level switching architecture.
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